By: E&P Staff William L. Winter, former president of the American Press Institute (API), has accepted a position as special assistant to the president of the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation in Las Vegas.
Winter retired in 2003 after a 16-year stint as president of API.
The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation works to serve communities in Arkansas, Nevada and Oklahoma, and supports many nonprofit organizations, such as the American Press Institute. In journalism, the largest single grant was awarded in 2004 to the University of Missouri School of Journalism.? The $31 million grant will fund the construction and endow over a six-year period the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute.
In January 2005 the Foundation?s trustees awarded the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University a grant of $350,000, supporting the award of one Donald W. Reynolds Nieman Fellowship in Community Journalism each year over a five year period. It was just one of the foundation's many contributions in support of better quality journalism.
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